Postal Service Changes
09-16-2011, 06:42 PM
#51
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Today I went to the PO to mail a priority envelope and buy 6 priority stamps. I could only get 3 and 1 of those she used on the envelope I was mailing. I was told I could come back tomorrow to get the rest. I couldn't believe it. I said "are you telling me I can't buy the stamps? There are none here?" She said that, yes, I could buy them just not until tomorrow -- they had some in back but she wouldn't have them out front for sale until tomorrow. I repeated her statement in disbelief. And again was told that I can come back tomorrow to get them. What a way to do business!!! Think of the gas spent to get there and the 20 min spent standing in line so that I can come back tomorrow (Sat) and stand in a longer line while I wait for all the non English speaking customers to send $$$$$ home to another country so I can get my other 3 stamps. I think not-- may try FedX next time! And I wonder why the PO is in financial trouble. Thanks for letting me vent.
09-16-2011, 07:33 PM
#53
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Location: IL
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Originally Posted by DogHouseMom
I mailed invoices from my office near Chicago to a PO box in Pennsylvania in late July.
Monday ... THIS Monday ... they were returned as "PO Box closed".
It took them 6 weeks to figure out the PO box was closed and return the items??? I'm still getting them back as we bill this customer pretty much DAILY. ARGH!!!!
And now they're saying it's going to get WORSE? How can it get worse??
Monday ... THIS Monday ... they were returned as "PO Box closed".
It took them 6 weeks to figure out the PO box was closed and return the items??? I'm still getting them back as we bill this customer pretty much DAILY. ARGH!!!!
And now they're saying it's going to get WORSE? How can it get worse??
09-16-2011, 09:38 PM
#55
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Location: Ottawa, Ontario
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Originally Posted by Normacharlie
I blame it on junk mail! and lack of real letter writing, most kids only know how to facebook!
09-16-2011, 09:58 PM
#56
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Originally Posted by crafty_linda_b
Originally Posted by cmagee84
Originally Posted by DeeBooper
Originally Posted by charismah
Yeah..They are closing our processing center as well..laying off thousands of people across the country...They are actually saying that in a few years they will probably shut down USPS and make it all go private. They are also going to quilt delivering mail on Saturdays. Only 5 days a week.
LOL...re-read your topic response...I think you have quilting on the brain like I always do....LOL
I mostly get junk mail, which goes directly into the recyling bin. If it wasn't for daily credit card offers, my mail box would be mostly empty most days!!! BTW, I think junk mail is just a waste of good trees!
09-17-2011, 02:28 AM
#57
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Originally Posted by fishnlady
I have been told by a mail carrier that bulk mail items that are put back in and rejected just go in the trash. They do not send them back.
09-17-2011, 03:17 AM
#58
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Location: Rancho Cordova, CA
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The USPS is no longer run by the government, though it is regulated by it. It went private years ago, and stopped being subsidized by the taxpayers. Has been in the proverbial handbasket ever since.... Employees are in two tiers, with newer hires (last several years) lower paid and with fewer benefits, except of course for the people in charge. The Post Office had a Postmaster General; the Postal Service has a whole group in his place.
Remember the Pony Express? It was done in by that newfangled telegraph, and then phones made that obsolete. Now landline phones are being pushed out by cell phones.
Without unions the rich would be richer and the poor poorer. I don't like paying those monthly dues, but the union has saved my job from unscrupulous bosses a couple times; in a non-union position I was "fired" because the boss decided to hire in my place her friend who needed more income but did not have the experience to get a better job on her own!
As for health care, when I got laid off recently my health plan ended too, unless I spend $600/month for COBRA extension of coverage, and even that would end in 18 months. That same situation is what made my sister ask to skip the usual Happy Birthday and instead have Happy Medicare as the sentiment on her 65th-birthday cake.
Remember the Pony Express? It was done in by that newfangled telegraph, and then phones made that obsolete. Now landline phones are being pushed out by cell phones.
Without unions the rich would be richer and the poor poorer. I don't like paying those monthly dues, but the union has saved my job from unscrupulous bosses a couple times; in a non-union position I was "fired" because the boss decided to hire in my place her friend who needed more income but did not have the experience to get a better job on her own!
As for health care, when I got laid off recently my health plan ended too, unless I spend $600/month for COBRA extension of coverage, and even that would end in 18 months. That same situation is what made my sister ask to skip the usual Happy Birthday and instead have Happy Medicare as the sentiment on her 65th-birthday cake.
09-17-2011, 06:07 AM
#59
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My daughter works for the encoding center and told me about this awhile back. Her center just got rid off 400 people. Part of the problem is people retiring. You can retire after 20 years from the postal service so there are people retiring in their 40's and pulling retirement checks for 30 and 40 years. They have to make a change somewhere to meet this demand. They want to raise the price of stamps and the public goes bonkers when they do that so this is the alternative. And yes, technology is hugely responsible. I always feel bad when I choose to go "paperless". Helps the environment but costs jobs. What to do?
09-17-2011, 06:09 AM
#60
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Originally Posted by auniqueview
Originally Posted by fishnlady
I have been told by a mail carrier that bulk mail items that are put back in and rejected just go in the trash. They do not send them back.
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